On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:37:02 +0545 (NPT) Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > Emacs has been praised by many. It's said to be an all-in-one editor. > Read mail, surf the web, code... everything there. > Do we have similar environments for VIM ? I like the idea vim has of > modes. Is there any software which is just like Emacs(with loads of > features like mail, web, development) but designed specifically for > vim? Yes, I know vip-mode and viper are alternatives but they don't > adhere all features of vim everywhere into emacs. They just seem > incomplete emulators. > It would have been great to see a Emacs kind software for vim too. I'm kind of surprised the flames haven't started flying yet. Vim vs. Emacs is almost as bad as Chocolate ice-cream vs. Vanilla ice-cream. Mixing the two would surely cause an explosion; or worse. :-) In all seriousness, I've been using vim with mutt for composing e-mails for quite a while now. There is an option to pass it, telling it that it's in mail mode; it does thing like enable syntax highlighting for headers, wrap lines that are longer than 72 characters, and can even enable spell-checking. (Unfortunately the option escapes my mind at the moment; it gets stashed away in the deep dark corners of ~/.muttrc.) As for programming, it has syntax highlighting tailored to more programming languages than I can recite. Admittedly, it's not an IDE, but it works great for me. If you're looking for more specific instructions on how to change hot keys or adding functionality, you may find it helpful to browse www.vim.org - it has a ton of plugins. I've even found it great for editing encrypted files - with vim prompting me for the password and letting me change text without having to unencrypt the file manually. There's the vim mailing list as well. Or even if you can start by narrowing your request down to a couple of small features you're trying to do in vim, people here can probably help. But just saying 'Emacs like' is a pretty vast topic, for which I suspect some people could write a whole book and more. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
